Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade by James Walvin

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We are proud of the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a year
before America. Nevertheless, colonial slavery continued until 1838, says
historian Walvin. “What was so virtuous about the abolition of 1807 when it
left millions of people mired in slavery across the Americas?” His vigorous
narrative of a bloody thread in modern history draws extensively on the
“Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database”, which provides harrowing evidence of
more than 35,000 slave voyages that transported more than 12 million
Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries, until the
final Brazilian emancipation in 1888. He